I think that one of the issues is that the cost of that license contributes towards the lower cost of future upgrades. So if I have Delphi 3, for example, and subsequently upgrade it to Delphi 5, then I can't legally sell Delphi 3 because it is the ownership of it that I had the right to upgrade at a lower cost.
Now, taking that a step further, the person who buys Delphi 3 could then attempt to upgrade that version to Delphi 5 as well - and now the producer/reseller is *definitely* out of pocket. So, as you can see it's not a simple case of keeping track of who has which version right now, it's also a matter of tracking which licenses have been used for upgrades, and to which version. On Sun 01/06/08 9:18 AM , "Paul A Norman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > Dear all, This would put codegear/"what ever it now is" purchase of > thir products in a new light if legitimate reselling transfering of > licenses is not possible. For such database wizs its hard to imagine > why the "tracking costs" of keeping tabs on such thinbgs would be so > high, and I am sure that there are good people on this newsgroup who > could suggest cost efficient means of doing so if Codegear internal > research really can't come up with such a thing. Is it perhaps > more that Codegear would see such transfers as eating into potential > NEW sales and there fore wish to discourage such transfers? Paul > > 2008/5/31 John Mason : > The EULA is irrelevant if it contradicts fair-use rights allowed in > law. Autodesk recently filed a lawsuit against someone selling > Autocad: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080523-court-smacks-autodesk-affirms > -right-to-sell-used-software.html[2] > Similarly to Autodesks website, CodeGear's site uses the word > "How to buy", "Reasons to buy". This is a misguided attempt to sell > more copies of the software, arguments about costs of transferring > licences are just smoke and mirrors. > John Mason > Richard Vowles wrote: The official line, no matter what John > says, is that licenses are *not* transferrable - it says so right > there in the license file - go read it for yourself. The argument has > been the cost of the overheard of dealing with transferred licenses > and tracking licenses. What Paul may be confusing me with saying is > that inter-company transfers are no problem, and when you have a > product that has never been licensed you are effectively acting as a > reseller, which is also not generally a problem (although the license > does actually prohibit this as well). > CodeGear generally will transfer the licenses for companies who have > been purchased or merged with other companies as long as they fill in > all the paper work. The last time it happened, it took around two > months. > > So - if you are going to find a second hand copy on TradeMe - make > sure it hasn't been registered already. The one and only time we > did that for someone who purchased on ebay it was because they had > been shafted. > > Richard > > 2008/5/30 Todd Martin : > A few years ago I purchased a copy of Delphi 6 Pro from someone in > the US and had no problems re-registering it with Borland. > Paul A Norman wrote: > Dear Richard, > You have posted here in past years that licenses can be arranged to > be transfered if it is clear they have not been used for upgrades, or > a company/individual is going rigth out of Delphi, or purchased too > many licenses in the past. > Paul > -- > --- > Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor > Developers Inc Ltd > web. http://www.developers-inc.co.nz [5] > ph. +64-9-3600231, mob. +64-275-467747, fax. +64-9-3600384 > skype. rvowles, LinkedIn, Twitter > ------------------------- > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland > Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: Admin: > http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi [7] Unsubscribe: send an > email to with Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi [10] > Unsubscribe: send an email to with Subject: unsubscribe > > > > Links: > ------ > [2] > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080523-court-smacks-autodesk-affirms > -right-to-sell-used-software.html[3] http://todd.martin.nz/ > [4] http://gmail.com/ > [5] http://www.developers-inc.co.nz/ > [7] http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > [10] http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
